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Old 8th January 2019, 02:49
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Re: Whitley P4955 lost 16/17 August 1940, crash location sought.

The plane crashed at/near Rijsbergen. This link has some photos of the plane and also a declaration by the "Burgemeester" of Rijsbergen that any residents of Rijsbergen with any information about the evading crew should come forward. Text associated with one of the photos mentions that the Germans in a radio broadcast mentioned the other town. It is not clear why they did.


https://www.oorlogsbronnen.nl/zoekre...%5D=Rijsbergen


I ran across another link here (in Dutch, but Google gives an option to translate into English: https://www.bhic.nl/thread/view/page/8086/1?serviceUrl=
The link describes both the Whitley crash and another crash that occurred in 1944 of an American bomber "at the same place as the English plane crash"

Search for P4955 to get to the start of the Whitley crash. The American crash follows it. If the translation is working correctly, I think the crashes occurred at/near at place/location called "Tiggeltseberg". That name comes up on Google maps here, so "maybe" that is the crashsite.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/%2...095!4d4.665276

The second crash is for B-17G, 43-38531, 100th BG, lost 7 Oct 1944. MACR 9562.

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